Visual Studio Code, appears to be a code editor with support for C, C#, C++, Fortran, Go, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, Rust, and Julia
Visual Studio, appears to be a code editor with support for 36 languages including C, C++, C++/CLI, Visual Basic .NET, C#, F#, JavaScript, TypeScript, XML, XSLT, HTML, and CSS.
Visual Studio Code, appears to be liked by almost every user and the favorite in a bunch of online polls.
Visual Studio, appears to be unusable junk, widely hated in almost every survey, and unable to even display its own error messages correctly in 2022.
Visual Studio Code is supposedly a "related product" according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Studio#Related_products
How are these related? They seem like Microsoft's internal fiefdoms again.
It's a traditional windows application. .net/WPF I think. Configured via XML
VSCode is free, an electron app, has a plugin store with lots of niche language plugins. Configured via json.
Surely they're using VSCode to exert influence in their Microsofty way, but it feels much less like a prison.
VSCode still feels like a bit much to me (though of a monster than Visual Studio). I'm pretty happy with helix.
